> This will be the downfall of Stack Overflow eventually. The rules for question and answers try to be objective and specific, but they end up being too strict

> This will be the downfall of Stack Overflow eventually. The rules for question and answers try to be objective and specific, but they end up being too strict and are making the site less useful over time. I never really understood what their issue is with broad questions. There are so many question from the early years of SO which became popular healthy Q&A despite being "broad" and they are now too popular to get closed by some trigger happy mod. Some of these questions wouldn't survive a minute if they were asked today. The typical mod on SO shoots a question dead as soon as s/he has the slightest suspicion. I guess the site would be better off with (a lot) less mods.